Hoshiarpur runs along the Shivaliks in the north of the Doaba, with tehsils at Hoshiarpur, Dasuya, Mukerian and Garhshankar. It is the most wooded district in Punjab, which is a low bar.
Its eastern half is Kandi: chos, thin soil, rainfed farming and heavy out-migration. Its western half is good Doaba land.
It holds Dholbaha with its medieval sculpture and its dam, Mahilpur the football town, Kot Fatuhi, Una just over the Himachal line, and the villages that produced a very large share of the Ghadar and Babbar Akali movements.
It has the highest rate of emigration in Punjab along with Nawanshahr and Jalandhar, and among the highest Scheduled Caste population shares in India.
It is also known for inlay woodwork and for its horticulture in the foothills.
What is not recorded: the Dholbaha sculpture corpus, the district's Ghadar village histories, and the condition of the Kandi water sources.
The district runs from the Beas up into the Shivaliks and holds both the wealthiest emigration villages of the Doaba and the poorest Kandi country in the state.
Its literacy rate is high and its emigration history is old, running to Britain from the 1950s. The village housing shows both.
Dholbaha in this district has produced a large body of stone sculpture from destroyed temple sites, held in a small museum. The sites themselves are unexcavated.